Buckongahelas

Buckongahelas (1720-May 1805) was a Lenape chief during the French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War, and Northwest Indian War.

Biography
Buckongahelas was born in 1720 in present-day Delaware to Lenape parents, and his name means "fulfiller". His son was killed in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774, and he decided to get revenge against the patriots during the American Revolutionary War. The Christian Lenape of Gnadenhutten did not heed his warnings that the patriots would massacre all Native Americans regardless of religion, and he continued to resist the United States after the end of the revolution in the Northwest Indian War. Buckongahelas won several battles against the Americans in that war, but the Western Confederacy was defeated at the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, and in 1804 he ceded lands in Ohio to America. Buckongahelas died of either smallpox or the flu in May 1805 in Muncie, Indiana.